I Quotes
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“I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.”
“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!”
Source: Ansel Adams: photographs
“I tried to keep him at a safe distance where he could only see the decent parts of me and it made us both miserable. I inadvertently let him in to see the ugly parts but instead of running away like I’d counted on him to do, he wrapped his arms around all of that ugliness and didn’t let go.”
Source: You Deserve Each Other
“I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.”
“I tried to keep my distance, but my world doesn't work without you in it.”
“I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.”
“I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“I tried to kill you,' she reminds me.
'You've described pretty much every important relationship in my life,' I return.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.”
“I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.”
“I tried to learn the violin for a while.”
“I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.”
“I tried to log on to the Obamacare website today. I don't think I'm doing it right. I lost 300 bucks playing Texas Hold 'Em.”
“I tried to look at writing a song almost like solving a mystery. The song was there, buried somewhere in my brain. All I had to do was follow the clues until I figured it out.”
Source: Struts & Frets
“I tried to look presentable for a show, but not for sexual attraction. It was strictly for show business.”
“I tried to love Dad and not hate him for his fake cheer and the way he gets dressed. I tried to imagine what Mom saw in him back when she was an architect. I tried to put myself in the shoes of someone who finds every little thing he does a total delight. It was sad, though, because the thought of him and all his accessories always made me sick. I wished I'd never made the connection about Dad being a gigantic girl, because once you realize something like that, it's hard to go back.”
Source: Where'd You Go, Bernadette
“I tried to love you, but you have a cold heart against the wrong people.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I tried to love you, but you have a cold heart against the wrong people. I tried to love you, but you shut me out. I wanted to hug you, but you’d rather slap me. I wanted to embrace you, but you’d rather scold me and bring me down.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I tried to love you, but you shut me out. I wanted to hug you, but you’d rather slap me. I wanted to embrace you, but you’d rather scold me and bring me down.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.”
“I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.”
“I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.”
“I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.”
“I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.”
“I tried to make it as real for them as possible. The thing about being reality is that reality is not always fun. They did a big piece of growing up that day.”
“I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body”
Source: American Psycho: Picador Classic
“I tried to make my body as heavy as possible as I lay there on the frozen river”
Source: Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home
“I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change.”
Source: Blended Families An Anthology
“I tried to make my life colorful with basic colors Red, Green and Blue....... ohh god... my perfection in blending made it white !!! now again confused…. should go with :( or :)”
“I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.”
“I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable.”
Source: The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre
“I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.”
“I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.”
“I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956”
“I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.”
“I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.”
“I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out to everything. Next to the megalithic institutionalized shredding of people's humanity, marked by tombstone malls and scabby hills, the Styrofoam gullets and flag-waving god-chatterers casting their votes for eternal paternity on the lap rapists - next to all of that, the intimacy between a terrorist and his target was almost a beautiful thing but I still couldn't solve that moment when they did it anyway so I grabbed more paper and widened my field of vision.”
Source: Zazen
“I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.”
“I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving”
“I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.”
“I tried to order the words jumbling about in my head. But they scurried about like a pack of frightened sheep, not one of them brave enough to take the lead.”
Source: When All Is Said
“I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.”
“I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.”
“I tried to peg out soldierly,--no use!
One dies of war like any old disease.”
Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen
“I tried to persuade myself that she is not so beautiful, I thought of her hips, which are too large for her waist, I thought that by seeing all kinds of imperfections in her, I would distance her from me — in fact, as often happens, the imperfections somehow only served to bring her closer to me.”
Source: Maitreyi
“I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth; and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength, as a personal challenge that gave me strength and understanding and in which I invested all my heart.”
“I tried to pick Nykyrian’s pocket last year. (Jana) And you let him live? (Kiara) I have an age requirement before I kill someone. (Nykyrian)”
“I tried to pick the burned ones from the bowl but I didn't get many of them because I didn't make much of an effort, and even though I was taking the burned ones out because they weren't edible, I ate them because, at the moment, I thought it would be better if everyone learned to consume their own mistakes.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.”
Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel
“I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.”
Source: Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel